TWOC

From section 12 of the United Kingdom's Theft Act 1968, which states 'a person shall be guilty of an offence if, without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority, he takes any conveyance for his own or another’s use or, knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority, drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it'.

TWOC (uncountable)

1. (Britain, law enforcement) The crime of taking (a car) without the consent of the owner.

TWOC (not comparable)

1. (Britain) Of a car, taken without consent of the owner.

• twoc
• twoccer
• twoccing

• Site for reporting TWOC cars

TWOC (plural TWOCs)

1. Initialism of trans woman of color or trans women of color.
   • 2015, Violence Against Queerfolk, in Raix/zine, volume 1, issue 2, page 9:

     There is no scientific or medical research to support "trans panic" theory, and this defence is nothing but a poor justification for committing violence against TWOC.

   • 2016, Ellen L. Short, Leo Wilton, Talking About Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations and Social Systems (→ISBN), page 156:

     Her advocacy campaign, “Stop the Unjust Arrests of TWOC (Transgender Women of Color), #FreeEisha,” challenges what to be an inevitability for Black transgender women who dare to defend themselves against gender-based violence

• CWOT